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was made a gelding. As a weight puller he had no equal in his 

 day. His daughters became the dams of many noted producers 

 and performers, and through the doubling of his blood and its 

 predominating influence we have the famous General Knox and 

 his tribe. But few of his sons were kept as stallions; among 

 them the best known is Hambletonian, 814, known as the Parris 

 Horse and the sire of the stout campaigner, Joker, 2:22%. Ver- 

 mont Hambletonian (known as the Noble or Harrington Horse) 

 was one of his best and best-bred sons. He died in 1865, leaving 

 a valuable progeny. 



HAMBLETOXIAN (JUDSON'S) was a brown horse and resembled 

 his sire very much in both size and form. He was foaled 1821 , got 

 by Bishop's Hambletonian, son of Messenger; dam by Wells' 

 Magnum Bonum. This Magnum Bonum family abounded in 

 that region, and it was a very good one, whatever the blood may 

 have been. This horse was bred by Judge Underbill, of Dorset, 

 Vermont, and sold, 1529, to Dr. Nathan Judson, of Pawlet, Ver- 

 mont. He was kept in that region till he died about 1841. His 

 progeny were very numerous and valuable. 



HAMBLETOXIAN (ANDRUS') was a brown horse nearly sixteen 

 hands high. He was a well formed and evenly balanced horse, 

 all over, with an objectionable lack of bone just below the fore- 

 knee. His head and ear were strongly after the Messenger 

 model. I have never been able to determine just who bred him, 

 and consequently his blood on the side of the dam is not fully 

 established. He was foaled about 1840, got by Judson's Hamble- 

 tonian, and out of a mare which Mr. B. B. Sherman says was by 

 old Magnum Bonum. He seems to have known this mare well 

 and speaks of her as a very superior animal. This would indi- 

 cate inbreeding to the Magnum Bonums, and as they were a light- 

 limbed family we may account for this horse's defects in that re- 

 spect. He was owned a number of years by Mr. Andrus, of 

 Pawlet, and passed into the hands of G. A. Austin, of Orwell, 

 Vermont. In 1853-4 Mr. Austin sent him to Illinois, along 

 with Drury's Ethan Allen, Black Hawk Prophet, Morgan Tiger 

 and some other stallions, in charge of Mr. Wetherbee, for sale. 

 In 1854 they were removed to Muscatine, Iowa, and several of 

 them sold there, among them the Andrus Horse. He was then stiff 

 in his limbs, showing the effects of previous neglect and abuse. He 

 died at Muscatine in 1857. His progeny there were defective in 

 bone. I am told several of his daughters in Vermont have left 



